Wang Mojies dreams wilted in the Beijing heat. Leaving his failed marriage behind, he seeks meaning in Lhasa. Instead, he finds Ukyi Lhamo. The soul of every party, her studied Parisian charms hide an inner rootlessness as she searches for her grandmother, the key to her lost Tibetan heritage.
Crossing paths among a gathering of self-exiled intellectuals living among the cool mountains, the two find themselves on the sidelines of a fierce philosophical debate. However, as Wang Mojies masochistic fantasies resurface, can they cling to what they mutually lack? Or was it never possible to make peace with zero?
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"Experimental, ambitious" - WIRED
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Souls buried underneath the Tibetan sky
Ning Ken was born in Beijing in 1959. His major works include The City of Masks, Tibetan Sky and Three Trios. For many years, he was the executive deputy editor of the literary magazine October, and he is now a professional writer at the Lao She Literary Institute. He has been nominated for the Lao She Literary Award, the 2014 Asia Weekly Top Ten Novels and the U.S. Newman Literary Award. Thomas Moran received his PhD in East Asian Literature from Cornell University in 1994, and since that year has been on the faculty of the Chinese Department at Middlebury College. He has edited or co-edited and contributed to three volumes on Chinese writers for the Dictionary of Literary Biography series and has published translations of Chinese short stories, plays, poems and essays.
